Today's Birthdays 9/11

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 9/10/06 at 9:31pm

O. Henry 09/11/1862 - Jun 5, 1910 author, source material - ALLIAS JIMMY VALENTINE; RESERVED OF DESTINY; fav short stories GIFT OF THE MAGI & RANSOM OF RED CHIEF

D. H. Lawrence 09/11/1885 - Mar 2, 1930 author, source material - YOU TOUCHED ME (Montgomery Clift, Edmund Gwenn); books LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER

Anne Seymour 09/11/1909 performer - SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO (Mary Fickett, Ralph Bellamy, Vincent Dowling); film's Mirage, All the King’s Men

Henderson Forsythe 09/11/1917 - 4/17/2006 Director, Performer; Played Dr. David Stewart on the soap opera "As the World Turns" for 33 years. - origs MISS LONELYHEARTS (Anne Meara, Ruth Warrick, Pippa Scott, Fritz Weaver, William Hickey); WHO'S AFRAID OF VA WOLFE?; A DELICATE BALANCE; BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TX (Carlyn Glynn); SOME AMERICANS ABROAD (Nathan Lane & Kate Burton in the same show!?)

Alan Bergman 09/11/1925 Lyricist, Performer & Cabaret Performer, Marilyn Bergman's hubby - GIDEON (AB performed in this show! Douglas Campbell, Fredric March, u/s George Segal); SOMETHING MORE (Barbara Cook, Arthur Hill, Hal Linden, Joan Copeland); BALLROOM (Dorothy Loudon, Vincent Gardinia, Svetlana McLee Grody); 1st time I met this darling man was at THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOM when he did his cabaret show in the early 90's. I sat next to Shirley Maclaine & across fr Marilyn Bergman (who was glowing). Alan sang their beautiful lyrics, including 1 that he wrote as an engagement present because he told us they were so poor he barely had 2 nickles to rub together. The song was "That Face". An enchanting evening for me.

Carol Grace 09/11/1925 - Jul 27, 2003 Wife of William Saroyan (1943 - 1949) divorced; (1951 - 1952) divorced, Wife of Walter Matthau (1959 - 2000) his death, performer - WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER (Orson Bean, Walter Matthau, Jayne Mansfield, Tina Louise); THE SQUARE ROOT OF WONDERFUL (Ann Baxter); THE COLD WIND & THE WARM (Suzanne Pleshette, Sandy Meisner, Eli Wallach, Maureen Stapleton, Vincent Gardinia, Morris Carnovsky); THERE ONCE WAS A RUSSIAN (Julie Newmar, Walter Matthau)

Lee Richardson 09/11/1926 - Oct 2, 1999 performer - 1956 SAINT JOAN (Peter Falk, Janet Dowd, Siobhán McKenna); LORD PENGO (Charles Boyer, Brian Bedford, Agnes Moorehead); THE HOUSE OF ATREUS [AGAMEMNON, CHLOEPHORI, EUMENIDES] (Roberta Maxwell, Michael Moriarty, Len Cariou); 1970 OTHELLO (Lizbeth MacKay, Roberta Maxwell, Moses Gunn); GETTING MARRIED (Victoria Tennant, Walter Bobbie, Elizabeth Franz)

Brian (Russell) De Palma 9/11/1940 director - film's Carrie, The Untouchables, Bonfire of the Vanities, Body Double, Scarface, Wise Guys; The Black Dahlia

Amy Madigan 09/11/1950 performer - 1992 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Alec Baldwin, Jessica Lange, James Gandolfini, Susan Anton); tv's & film's Field of Dreams, Places in the Heart; Carnivàle; Murder on Pleasant Drive

Kristy McNichol 9/11/1962 performer; Dropped out of acting because she was literally sick and tired of acting, wanted to have an average life, and one thing she pursued was going to school to learn how to style hair. - Emmy Award-winning actress: Family [1976-77, 1978-79]; Empty Nest, The Summer of My German Soldier

Adriane Lenox 09/11/1965 performer, wife of Zane Mark - THE GERSHWINS' FASCINATIN' RHYTHM (Darius de Haas, Patrick Wilson); 1999 KISS ME KATE, Caroline, or Change, Doubt

Harry Connick, Jr. 09/11/1967 Lyricist, Arranger, Composer, Orchestrator, Director, Performer - AN EVENING WITH HARRY CONNICK, JR.; THOU SHALT NOT; 2006 The Pajama Game

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1940 After missing him for a decade, the Broadway stage once again sees Al Jolson. He co-stars with Martha Raye in Hold on to Your Hats at the Shubert Theater with John Randolph.

1952 Seagulls Over Sorrento with Leslie Nielsen, John Randolph & Rod Steiger.

1957 Carousel with Barbara Cook, Howard Keel, Kay Medford, Victor Moore, Bambi Linn

ON THIS DATE IN:

1959 The now infamous statue of song and dance man George M. Cohan is unveiled in Times Square, opposite the Palace Theater.

1970 - “Would you believe?” The last of the Get Smart series on CBS-TV was aired. The show, featuring dimwitted, secret agent Maxwell Smart, played by Don Adams, and his sidekick, Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon), aired on NBC in 1965 before moving to CBS. Incidentally, Max’s shoe phone was worn on his right foot...

1994 Broadway's original Blanche Dubois, actress Jessica Tandy, dies tonight at the age of 85. A legend of both stage and screen, she won three Tony Awards for her portrayals in A Streetcar Named Desire, The Gin Game and Foxfire. She also garnered an Academy Award for her role in "Driving Miss Daisy." Her husband and longtime co-star, Hume Cronyn, shared a Tony Lifetime Achievement Award with her earlier in the year.

2001 On a gorgeous Tuesday morning, terrorists fly two commercial airliners into New York City's World Trade Center "Twin Towers," and a third into the Pentagon in Washington DC, causing mass death, destruction and chaos in both cities. All Broadway and Off-Broadway theatrical performances are cancelled for the next two days. I was leaving the voting polls when the 1st plan struck. Theatrical performances are also cancelled around the U.S.

After 9/11, I heard that the City needed volunteers to type up death certificates for WTC victims so that their families could process the victims' "estates". It took around 2 wks for everything to be set up for us volunteers to begin.

I'll never forget the shock of discovering that the 1st day that I went in was the birthday of 1 of the victims whose certificate I was inputting. I was in such a state that I lost the paper that I had written the name of the victim on. I've always wanted to find out the name of this person but was too hesitant to try to go thru the red tape only to be frustrated by being told that I didn't have the right to the info.

So, here's my birthday acknowledgement of my WTC "Jane Doe." I'm very sad to think that there may be a possibility of other victims whose birthdays were in the immediate time frame of the tragedy of WTC & how their families & friends are dealing with it.

I want to post about it today since I couldn't remember the exact date.

2002 On the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks, many Broadway and Off-Broadway shows cancel or reschedule performances, leaving their theatres dark for the day.

(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)

Milla
Updated On: 9/11/06 at 09:31 PM

[broadwayjavajunkie]

Posted: 9/10/06 at 9:40pm

Happy early birthday, everyone!

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 9/11/06 at 12:27pm

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[do_re_milla]

Posted: 9/11/06 at 11:01pm

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[Crazy_for_the_Q]

Posted: 9/11/06 at 11:08pm

Today is also Danny Calvert's birthday.

He was Mark in Altar Boyz after Tyler Maynard and he's in the upcoming White Noise NYMF musical.